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When and by whom was the smiley emoticon invented?
🗓🙂 On September 19, 1982, Scott Fahlman, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, is believed to have invented the sideways smiley emoticon (“smiley face”), by combining a colon, a hyphen, and a close parenthesis – “:-)”
🖥 By the early 1980’s, the Computer Science community at Carnegie Mellon was making heavy use of online bulletin boards or “bboards” – a precursor of today’s newsgroups, a platform socially accessible to others on the university’s closed intranet.
🙂 As this platform was then limited to text only, Fahlman suggested punctuating humorously intended computer messages by posting the smiley emoticon.
☹️ Interestingly, in the same post, Falman also suggested the use of :-( to indicate that a message was meant to be taken seriously, though that symbol quickly evolved into a marker for displeasure, frustration, or anger.
ℹ️ The smiley face has been dubbed the “first internet emoticon”.
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🗓🙂 On September 19, 1982, Scott Fahlman, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, is believed to have invented the sideways smiley emoticon (“smiley face”), by combining a colon, a hyphen, and a close parenthesis – “:-)”
🖥 By the early 1980’s, the Computer Science community at Carnegie Mellon was making heavy use of online bulletin boards or “bboards” – a precursor of today’s newsgroups, a platform socially accessible to others on the university’s closed intranet.
🙂 As this platform was then limited to text only, Fahlman suggested punctuating humorously intended computer messages by posting the smiley emoticon.
☹️ Interestingly, in the same post, Falman also suggested the use of :-( to indicate that a message was meant to be taken seriously, though that symbol quickly evolved into a marker for displeasure, frustration, or anger.
ℹ️ The smiley face has been dubbed the “first internet emoticon”.
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